We continue our work with ISRO to further accelerate NavIC s adoption and to enable more advanced geolocation applications with the latest NavIC technologies," said Francesco Grilli, Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
NavIC Chips Automobiles: The Indian government plans to mandate the use of chips embedded with ISRO s NavIC GPS solution for the automotive industry. The move aims to prioritize India-made systems and designs. Accord Software Systems, a local startup, has incorporated NavIC in its integrated circuit design, which is being used to produce a chip sold to Indian automotive companies.
NavIC offers a positioning accuracy of 3 metres, depending on signal strength and availability of satellites, while GPS has an accuracy of 5 metres. ISRO is planning to launch more satellites in the NavIC constellation, and make its coverage global.
India Business News: The Indian government plans to mandate the use of chips embedded with ISRO's NavIC GPS solution for the automotive industry. The move aims to prioriti
NavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation, is a homegrown alternative to systems such as the widely used GPS. NavIC currently has seven satellites up in space and ISRO aims to increase this to 12 in the coming years.